Talk about some stereotypes you think of when you hear of a given country, and help clear up the image of your country/a country you know from fellow ATRLers minds.
I'll start:
— Germans:
*Boring
*No sense of humor (?)
*Uncircumcised
American: stupid and fat (accurate)
French: Obnoxious and smelly
Italy: racists and pizza
Mexican: Tacos con carne asada
Canadians: Overtly nice and maple syrup
Ireland:
- Conservative
- Very religious
- The IRA/terrorism
- Leprechauns
To clear up:
- The older generation tends to be more conservative, especially in rural areas, but overall I think it's a very liberal country and Irish people tend to have a ''live and let live'' attitude to things for the most part.
- Ireland is 90% Catholic but most aren't very devout. Religious fanaticism isn't a thing here like it is in the US - if an Irish Catholic is against gays etc, they're weird, not the norm. Also most/a lot of Catholics don't even go to church.
- The IRA and UVF were 20 years ago. No, Ireland is NOT dangerous for you to visit (believe it or not, people sometimes think it is)
- These don't exist. Bye.
Middle eastern countries : We are mentally declined, terrorists, or intolerant of the western civilization.
Correction : The mental declination is related to education and living in poor areas and towns. Terrorism is related to extremist parties who use religion as a excuse to do harmful thing, and some are intolerant of the western culture and it's progression but not everyone is the same.
Empties dump trucks of farm animal dung on the highways to lock down there entire country, then they start the negotiations. While unions in other countries start with threats and negotiations, then they might go in action, but the enemy is already on high alert.
Pulls all the wires and cables out of the houses of politicians in France dared to dream about having cheaper construction workers from the other side of the EU. And make those politicians pay French electricians with French prices to have working light in their houses again.
Made in France airplanes are recognisable by the most important feature:
Teaching people to speak the only proper language (French) is for them like the divine task of saving souls.
Paris is the center of everything. Fish and sea food are transported to Paris to be sold before it is transported back to the coast. In Paris they eat the freshest food of entire country.
French driving.
French parking.
Till in 2012 they had the France-wide web separated from the non-French worldwide web.
France is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and **** to millions of users in the 1980s. But then came the worldwide web. Minitel has been slowly dying and the plug will be pulled on Saturday.
Many years ago, long before the birth of the web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe.
What the TGV was to train travel, the Pompidou Centre to art, and the Ariane project to rocketry, in the early 1980s the Minitel was to the world of telecommunications.
Thanks to this wondrous beige monitor attached to the telephone, while the rest of us were being put on hold by the bank manager or queueing for tickets at the station, the French were already shopping and travelling "online".
Iran is stereotyped as this backwards middle eastern country but they have the highest percentage of women in college and their government pays for peoples gender reassignment surgery.
at least once a month 
